001/** 002 * Copyright (C) 2006-2024 Talend Inc. - www.talend.com 003 * 004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 007 * 008 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 009 * 010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 014 * limitations under the License. 015 */ 016package org.talend.sdk.component.api.record; 017 018/** 019 * Represents a extraction logic from a path (jsonpointer) for records. 020 */ 021public interface RecordPointer { 022 023 /** 024 * Enables to extract a value from a record. 025 * 026 * @param target the record to use as base. 027 * @param type the expected type to extract. 028 * @param <T> the extracted type. 029 * @return the value extracted from record. 030 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the value does not exist. 031 */ 032 <T> T getValue(Record target, Class<T> type); 033}